#this is my kind of mountain though

[morethanwords229]

i was feeling bad for only writing half a chapter this weekend when i'd been planning to write the whole thing but then i looked at the total word count for the story so far and

i feel better now

[demonslayedher]

Wind down doodle

[melit0n]

I wanted to add on to this ask done by an anon on ST confessions, because they are so right and they made something click in my brain. Do go read it before you read this.

First, off, heavy agree that Fall for Me is designed to be a lonely song, both lyrically, and quite smartly, musically. In every single other song Sleep Token has ever done there is music. There is noise, always. Even in times where there should be silence, there never is any. Instead, it's filled by sounds of birds, a taught guitar chord or chewing and biting.

Fall for Me, however, is utter silence. There's no musical reply. No SFX, no subtle drums or bass; no nothing. It's the one of the few songs (along with Missing Limbs, Take Aim and Drag me Under) in which Vessel directly addresses the love he holds for this person. It's not layered in metaphors, prose and an eloquent vernacular, it's straightforward. While his poetry in other songs is used to draw Them in, decorate his love and entice Them, he's done with getting nothing. He wants to be an equal, a lover, but he gets naught.

The reason why, other than the obvious choice of acapella instead of instruments, the song feels so lonely is because it's the only song- overall- that he doesn't get a response to. Sugar is the response to The Offering, Say That You Will is the response to Take Aim etc., but here? Cold, dead silence. No gesture in tongues, no crushing 'affection'; no nothing.

So, to the rhythm of eternity, he will be on that beach, stumbling, crawling and shouting out the same question that he will never get an answer to; won't you fall for me?

However, even though, unlike most songs that get an answer within their album, Vessel gets one in the next. Take Me Back To Eden, therefore, becomes the answer to that question. As well as Vessel's action against it.

@lifemod17 saw you reblog the ask as well, thought you might like this :]

[andysambcrg]

i'm not the biggest fan of sunny s15 because i feel like it was bogged down (literally) by having half the season in ireland and none of the episodes really jump out as being particularly amazing but my god. glenn looks so fucking hot the entire goddamn time.

[desultory-novice]

Quick question: what do you headcanon noir voice sounds like

Personally, I headcanon him having the voice Asriel had in "Saying a lot of things as Undertale characters" by revtrosity but 20% more french

(BTW have you done that search on YouTube yet; let's just say the song that pops up may have some... Interesting lyrics that I want you to pay mind to ;P)

Omigosh?! That voice was softer than I expected for Asriel! And quite possibly TOO CUTE(?) for Noir! Not to say that I'm against it, just, the boy would be so…boyish! That Noir would be SOO huggable?!

:sniff: I see why everyone thinks I'm so mean now... Noir... I've been a cruel creator to you... Forgive me for all the horrors? U_U

(Gotta throw in the 20% Japanese too!)

Real Answer: I am having a seriously hard time (!) thinking of any character who hits the sweet spot for his voice?! Not that I watch a lot of dubs (not that I watch a lot of anything haha brb crying) Hrm...

Maybe Bryce Papenbrook (Eren, Kirito, etc) hitting a low register?? Noir needs to be able to growl and grumble threateningly at randos while hitting these warm calming notes when talking to his siblings. (A good Noir voice would also need to do Dark Matter Swordsman’s deep haunting monotone.) But Bryce seems like he can do that and is also good with the squeaky toy boyish thing, which would be useful for Noir's character breaking comical panic attacks!

PS: Uncensored Below ^w^;;

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[autumnblooms]

You’ll be alright

Still not over anxiety ridden Mountain - in reference to this post

[skyward-floored]

Bees are fine. Wasps I don’t mind too much, they’re fine too. Yellow jackets on the other hand, should all go off into the middle of nowhere and never come back except to get eaten by birds

[hellothereiplaygames]

Some thoughts on Asra's route...

Replaying Asra's route after having played Muriel's really hits different...

In one of the other routes Asra and Muriel appear to start a romantic relationship, and in Asra's route it's very clear that Muriel cares very deeply for Asra and dislikes the Apprentice. He mentions in one of the paid? dream scenes that he's worried about Asra and the Apprentice fading into their own world and leaving everyone else behind (again, apparently), and that he's determined to stop this from happening. His concern for Asra and initial hostility toward the Apprentice may be rooted in jealousy, not only because his oldest (and only) friend was more or less taken from him, but perhaps with romantic connotations as well.

In Book XI: Justice, Asra and Julian stage a mock trial by combat against Muriel. Though he apparently agreed to participate and is implied to have returned to the Coliseum of his own volition, presumably out of concern for Asra, who has been accused of being Julian's accomplice... he is still more or less backed into a corner and forced to play along with Asra and Julian's plan to stage a fight.

Now, to be fair to Asra, he states after everything goes wrong that it wasn't supposed to end this way, and it appeared that he was attempting to not only exonerate himself and Julian from their charges but somehow help Muriel overcome his past (he does disintegrate Muriel's chains during the fight no matter what choices you make). There was a point during this that I thought I could guess what Asra's plan was regarding Muriel's past, but being refreshed on how it actually pans out, I can't remember it now. Something about making the people of Vesuvia realize how barbaric the Coliseum was under Lucio.

The thing that stands out to me throughout this whole ordeal is that Asra knows about Muriel's trauma. He knows he was enslaved to Lucio and forced to fight and execute people in the Coliseum. He knows that Muriel is terrified of hurting other people, especially those he cares about. In Asra's route, the only person Muriel cares about is Asra, so hurting him is triggering for him. He literally is in a stupor after the board he was using as a weapon splinters off and hits Asra in the mouth, making him bleed. This is clearly meant to make the reader worried about Asra, but Muriel reacts as well, and appears hypnotized by the blood. I remember the first time I read this I thought he was going to have some crazy berserker-Hulk sort of reaction, but having read his route, it's way more tragic.

Though Muriel did seem to return to the Coliseum of his own volition, it does seem that Asra took this as a sign that he was coming to terms with his trauma. He was willing to exploit Muriel's care for him in order to save his own skin so he can be with the Apprentice. Though I recognize Asra's other toxic traits to some degree, I also have similar ones myself so they don't really stand out to me. This, however, where he more or less disregards Muriel's feelings on the matter, is actually really crushing. In Muriel's route, his whole thing is that he DOES NOT want to fight, he DOES NOT want to even spar with the Apprentice with blunt sticks out of fear of hurting them, so why would he willingly go along with this unless he was more or less in the same position Lucio put him in? Fight in the arena, or something bad will happen to Asra.

Asra knows this, and puts him through it regardless. During the whole fight, Julian's actions are written so as to make it seem like he's the one messing things up--he takes the "finishing blow" that Muriel was going to deal to Asra and gets knocked unconscious. Asra spends most of the entire time doing flashy, dramatic magic tricks that get the crowd cheering for him. After he "wins", he and the Apprentice are carried out of the Coliseum like heroes. Though Asra will try to soothe Muriel if the Apprentice so chooses right before the end, and he does look for Muriel in the crowd, he seems otherwise unbothered or unaware of the impact this may be having on his oldest friend. Which is pretty shitty.

Of course, Asra, Julian, and Muriel are all playing characters during their fight--Asra is the flashy magician, Julian is the rogueish BDSM dagger guy, and Muriel is the Scourge. Asra obviously can't show his concern even if he wanted to because he's supposed to be fighting Muriel. But putting his bro into this situation in the first place says a lot about his character. Though Julian is the one whose route is based around self-loathing because he believes he hurts everyone around him, Asra is the only one who gets what he wants out of this ordeal, and he even says so right before the chapter ends. Muriel was forced to relive his trauma and didn't get the resolution that was intended, and Julian gets KOed by a punch that literally sent him flying across the arena (though he probably enjoyed it tbh, he's a nasty little man like that lmao).

I wonder if this dynamic between Asra and Muriel was intentionally written this way in order to further amplify his tunnel vision when it comes to the Apprentice. Is this is how he acted in the past, causing Muriel to hate the Apprentice as he does and remark that he won't allow it to happen again? Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, but as a survivor of abuse and trauma it rubs me the wrong way much more than Asra's obsessive, clingy nature. Of all of the reversed ends, Asra's is the one that actually scared me and kind of haunted me, because it hits a little too close to home.

These are all just thoughts that I wanted to spill out because I thought it was interesting and I wasn't sure if anyone else has talked about it before.

[gyrovagi]

feel like i mgoing kind of crazy with winter break coming up and family plans and friend plans and wrist bad. what if i just posted the first 2k words of leg amputation fic

[qinghe-s]

not nearly enough gifs of XIAO HUA (1/∞)

(id: five gifs of xie yuchen from episode nine of the lost tomb 2. in the first two he can be seen scaling the side of a mountain. in the following three, all closeups of his face, he is first looking up towards the viewer and then dropping his gaze, moving to press a button on an earpiece to hang up a call, and smiling before looking back up. end id)

[jaysworlds]

cannot relate to how people on this site talk about their bands. i could not recognise a single member of any of the bands that have had a life changing effect on me if i met them on the street. if someone came up to me and said 'hey i wrote that song that made you feel like someone understood you like no one else' i would turn them into a nasty goop or perhaps a paste. and leave

[just-anka]

It's late march and we had another powder day today?? Whatever this magic is I'm here for it 🤣

[sketching-shark]

Saw the expression meme. How about 2 7 11 and 15 for Wukong and his kids? You can decide who gets what expression between them. :3

Incredibly sketchy, but here's the immediate Sun family in all their expression-filled glory! From top to bottom we've got Sun Wukong, Luohou, Yuebei Xing, and Jidu. And thanks for the request anon; this is messy, but it was very fun :3

[hanzajesthanza]

it kind of bothers me that witcher fans don’t really unite under sapkowski’s name like other fans of fantasy authors do (e.g. “tolkien fans”).

in practically any other fandom of fantasy books, save for the particularly rancid authors known for their disappointing and shameful behavior or views (e.g. jk r*wling), it’s just regular business to say the author’s name. but sapkowski’s name is treated like a dirty word in the witcher fandom, for really no good reason…

it must be asked — what is stopping us from doing so?! why don’t we call ourselves sapkowski fans. it would be much easier than saying “i’m a fan of the witcher, but only the books, i don’t consider the various adaptations canon, etc. etc.” … “half a hundred words, when three are enough!!”

[surreal-duck]

id post more on insta if it were not for the fact. that i have a fair few irls on it like ill already pick and choose what i do put on there and its not like its a secret per se but. i just would not be able to look them in the eye if they knew a good couple years of my life, several art canvases and a portion of my soul has been dedicated to these two random ass guys. same goes for when i meet enstarries irl (which is relatively not that rare) i will simply never mention a word abt mdyz ever. anyways that aside ygs should look at this nugget i fecked up somehow

[funsizedcrow]

funniest thing that ever happened when we were playing botw was my sister was playing and she had made it up to the top of the tower in hyrule field (the one surrounded by guardians) and was looking down at the guardians through a slot in the like railing and i was like "you should shoot the guardian" because i thought they were out of range and so she shot the guardian in the eye with an arrow and it came alive and immediately hit link with a laser and link instantly died ragdolled and fell through the slot and miphas grace activated and my sister immediately teleported away while mipha was still doing her thing. and i was just laughing so hard.